City Hall working on stench from lagoons

NEWS — The powerful smell coming from the sewage lagoons should be under control within a few days, says a City Hall spokesman.

Corporate services director Dave Duckworth told A.M. News that consultants arrived from Vancouver today to figure out how to stop the stench that has been coming from the City’s wastewater system for the past week.

Residents in several parts of the City have complained about the smell, which is being caused as the City makes the transition from the old lagoons to the upgraded waste treatment system, emptying out partially treated sewage from the old lagoons.

While complaints have come primarily from Brocklehurst, they’ve also come from Sahali and elsewhere and seem dependent on which way the wind is blowing. Residents call the smell “disgusting.”

Duckworth said the City is well aware of concerns and is working to get the problem under control as soon as possible.